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Sushil Manav
Chandigarh, June 28
More than 50 per cent of Covid victims, who died of the virus in the past two months, did not have any comorbidities, as per the official records of the state Health Department.
As per the weekly status report of Covid in the state, 9,385 persons died of Covid till Sunday, of which 3,501 (37 per cent) did not have any comorbidities. As many as 5,598 persons died between April 27 and June 27 and of these 2,819 (50.38 per cent) did not have any underlying medical condition.
The share of multiple comorbidities among Covid victims, which was 46 per cent of total fatalities till April 26, came down to 29 per cent till Sunday.
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Sushil Manav
Chandigarh, May 14
Even as Covid continues to devastate people in Haryana as also in other parts of the country, mucormycosis, or black fungus as it is commonly called, is posing a new threat in the state.
Since the start of the pandemic, 27 cases of black fungus have so far come to Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS) and two private hospitals in Gurugram. Of the infected, two have died and 12 are currently under treatment, said Dr Dhruv Chaudhary, Head of Pulmonary Department of the PGIMS and state nodal officer for Covid 19.
What is worrying is the fact that a majority of these cases have come to the hospital during the second wave of the deadly virus – 5 of these came in the past one week.
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Sushil Manav
Chandigarh, April 19
The state witnessed more than 40,000 cases of Covid in the past week even as 252 more cases of the UK variant surfaced. This has been stated in a report from the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) received today.
Death rate goes up
The mortality rate has gone up. In the past one week, 147 people passed away because of Covid. This is more than the number of deaths in February and March
The ‘R naught’ (R0) value, which indicates how contagious is the disease, has surged to 1.24 from 1.00 to 1.01 during January and February
The infection recorded in the past week are four times the cases recorded in January and February put together and 50 per cent more than the total cases registered in January, February and March.
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Sushil Manav
Chandigarh, April 16
Amid unprecedented surge in Covid cases in the state, just 12 out of samples of 276 patients sent by Haryana for whole genome sequencing (WGS) have been found positive for the UK variant strain.
The samples were tested at National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in Delhi.
Rajeev Arora, Additional Chief Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, Haryana, said that 10 of these patients are from Karnal while two others are from Gurugram. In Karnal district, three patients found positive for UK variant are from the city, two from Taraori and one each from villages Mohri Jagir, Rasulpur Kalan, Gheer, Jundla and Sainik School Kunjpura. Both cases of Gurugram are from Delhi.